Akihiro Ogawa is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Anthony J. Spires is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Introduction. Varieties of Civil Society Across Asia Part I: Challenges 1. Civic space and emergency powers in the time of the pandemic: The case of Thailand 2. On the verge of an economic collapse and an uprising: Changing character of Sri Lankan CSOs 3. Mobilizing for press freedom in Duterte’s Philippines: Conditions for success and its challenges Part II: Civic Techniques 4. Win a victory without a battle”: China’s crackdown on civil society in post-NSL Hong Kong 5. The shifting nature of transnational civil society in China: What have we learned? 6. Domestic violence, sex abuse, and civil society in Japan 7. Searching for self, searching for nation: New Bloom and belonging in Taiwan 8. Low hanging fruit: Asian migrant grassroots organizations and their views of the Global Compact on Migration Part III: Governance 9. Conceptualizing the role of civil society in Ganges-Brahmaputra basin governance 10. New forms of active citizen participation to regenerate cities: Systematic analysis of co-city literature and projects in Asia Part IV: New Societal Practices and Reflexive Space 11. Civil society and poverty: Contextual challenges in Cambodia 12. Japanese international NGOs in Asia: The reflexive outcomes of regional activism 13. Civil society and the state in making a wartime history: History of Japanese women repatriated from Manchuria

Akihiro Ogawa is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Anthony J. Spires is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Introduction. Varieties of Civil Society Across Asia Part I: Challenges 1. Civic space and emergency powers in the time of the pandemic: The case of Thailand 2. On the verge of an economic collapse and an uprising: Changing character of Sri Lankan CSOs 3. Mobilizing for press freedom in Duterte’s Philippines: Conditions for success and its challenges Part II: Civic Techniques 4. Win a victory without a battle”: China’s crackdown on civil society in post-NSL Hong Kong 5. The shifting nature of transnational civil society in China: What have we learned? 6. Domestic violence, sex abuse, and civil society in Japan 7. Searching for self, searching for nation: New Bloom and belonging in Taiwan 8. Low hanging fruit: Asian migrant grassroots organizations and their views of the Global Compact on Migration Part III: Governance 9. Conceptualizing the role of civil society in Ganges-Brahmaputra basin governance 10. New forms of active citizen participation to regenerate cities: Systematic analysis of co-city literature and projects in Asia Part IV: New Societal Practices and Reflexive Space 11. Civil society and poverty: Contextual challenges in Cambodia 12. Japanese international NGOs in Asia: The reflexive outcomes of regional activism 13. Civil society and the state in making a wartime history: History of Japanese women repatriated from Manchuria

Akihiro Ogawa is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Anthony J. Spires is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Introduction. Varieties of Civil Society Across Asia Part I: Challenges 1. Civic space and emergency powers in the time of the pandemic: The case of Thailand 2. On the verge of an economic collapse and an uprising: Changing character of Sri Lankan CSOs 3. Mobilizing for press freedom in Duterte’s Philippines: Conditions for success and its challenges Part II: Civic Techniques 4. Win a victory without a battle”: China’s crackdown on civil society in post-NSL Hong Kong 5. The shifting nature of transnational civil society in China: What have we learned? 6. Domestic violence, sex abuse, and civil society in Japan 7. Searching for self, searching for nation: New Bloom and belonging in Taiwan 8. Low hanging fruit: Asian migrant grassroots organizations and their views of the Global Compact on Migration Part III: Governance 9. Conceptualizing the role of civil society in Ganges-Brahmaputra basin governance 10. New forms of active citizen participation to regenerate cities: Systematic analysis of co-city literature and projects in Asia Part IV: New Societal Practices and Reflexive Space 11. Civil society and poverty: Contextual challenges in Cambodia 12. Japanese international NGOs in Asia: The reflexive outcomes of regional activism 13. Civil society and the state in making a wartime history: History of Japanese women repatriated from Manchuria